Finding Your Leadership Style: A Guide for Educators

by Jeffrey G. Glanz

Book Overview

What makes a good educational leader? How can you be one? Is a job candidate an effective leader who can work with students and staff in your school or district? According to author Jeffrey Glanz,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871206927
• ISBN13: 9780871206923
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Accurate description

This book was required reading for a course. It was exactly as the seller described which restores my diminishing faith in human behavior and integrity.

Helpful

I found it's 7 chategories of leader helped me to understand why I tackle things one way and others around me, who are different types of leaders, tackle them differently. That was a valuable insight that was totally consistent with my experience.

Finding your leadership style

Here's a book that all educators should read. The questionnaires and self-help activities make it easy for educators to analyze their leadership potential and match their leadership style. The full descriptions of the seven types of leaders are easy to follow and provide insight into your own behaviors and the strengths of those around you. The vivid scenarios provide clear steps and a multitude of strategies that would encourage educators to stretch their leadership capacities. As a school administrator, I see this book as an excellent tool in the crucial process of matching leadership qualities with specific jobs in the educational system.

Describing seven types of leadership styles

Finding Your Leadership Style: A Guide For Educators by Jeffrey Glanz (Dean of Graduate Programs and Head of the Department of Education, Wagner College, Staten Island, New York) is an informed and informative instructional manual written especially for educational leaders and administrators. Describing seven types of leadership styles (dynamic aggressive, dynamic assertive, dynamic supportive, adaptive aggressive, adaptive assertive, adaptive supportive, and creative assertive), Finding Your Leadership Style offers practical scenarios and solid advice for embracing and making the best of one's own leadership strengths and talents. An excellent resource for teachers, supervisors, district leaders, and more, Finding Your Leadership Style is a welcome and recommended addition to Educational Administration and Management Studies reference collections and reading lists.